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What should a child notice in 2 Kings 16?
2 Kings 16 opens with these words: “In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.” The line to keep is 2 Kings 16:2: “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like…” Carry the word “ahaz” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is 2 Kings 16:2: “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father.” What happens first in 2 Kings 16?
2 Kings 16:2
“Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh his God’s eyes, like David his father.”
2 Kings 16:3
“But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.”
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Practice 2 Kings 16:2
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
wastwentyyearsoldwhenhebegantoreign,andhereignedsixteenyearsinHedidn’tdothatwhichwasrightinYahwehhisGod’slikeDavidhisfather.